Take a look...

[Destina Faroda]

So I decided to look at GameFAQs today, and look at this bullshit list that's put up.

The Top 10 + 90 Games: The Users' Picks

#1: Final Fantasy VII - PS
#2: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - N64
#3: Chrono Trigger - SNES
#4: The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past - SNES
#5: Super Mario Bros. 3 - NES
#6: Super Smash Bros. Melee - GC
#7: GoldenEye 007 - N64
#8: Metal Gear Solid - PS
#9: Halo: Combat Evolved - XBOX
#10: Final Fantasy III - SNES
#11: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - PS2
#12: Final Fantasy X - PS2
#13: Super Mario 64 - N64
#14: Resident Evil 4 - GC
#15: Castlevania: Symphony of the Night - PS
#16: Kingdom Hearts - PS2
#17: Final Fantasy VIII - PS
#18: Starcraft - PC
#19: Final Fantasy Tactics - PS
#20: Diablo II - PC
#21: Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater - PS2
#22: Super Mario Bros. - NES
#23: Super Mario World - SNES
#24: Super Metroid - SNES
#25: Half-Life 2 - PC
#26: Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars - SNES
#27: Grand Theft Auto III - PS2
#28: Pokemon Red - GB
#29: Metroid Prime - GC
#30: The Legend of Zelda - NES
#31: Half-Life - PC
#32: Xenogears - PS
#33: Doom - PC
#34: Tetris - GB
#35: Grand Theft Auto: Vice City - PS2
#36: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic - XBOX
#37: EarthBound - SNES
#38: Sonic the Hedgehog 2 - GEN
#39: World of Warcraft - PC
#40: Devil May Cry - PS2
#41: Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty - PS2
#42: Final Fantasy IX - PS
#43: Chrono Cross - PS
#44: Perfect Dark - N64
#45: The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker - GC
#46: The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask - N64
#47: Street Fighter II: The World Warrior - ARC
#48: God of War - PS2
#49: Half-Life: Counter-Strike - PC
#50: Final Fantasy II - SNES
#51: Soul Calibur - DC
#52: Secret of Mana - SNES
#53: Resident Evil - PS
#54: Fire Emblem - GBA
#55: Advance Wars - GBA
#56: Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings - PC
#57: Suikoden II - PS
#58: Mortal Kombat - ARC
#59: Pokemon Gold - GBC
#60: Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos - PC
#61: Super Mario Kart - SNES
#62: Burnout 3: Takedown - PS2
#63: Contra - NES
#64: Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn - PC
#65: Metroid - NES
#66: Pac-Man - ARC
#67: Deus Ex - PC
#68: Skies of Arcadia - DC
#69: Shenmue - DC
#70: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater - PS
#71: Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! - NES
#72: Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec - PS2
#73: Fallout 2 - PC
#74: Metroid Prime 2: Echoes - GC
#75: Command & Conquer Red Alert - PC
#76: Final Fantasy - NES
#77: Dragon Warrior - NES
#78: Battlefield 1942 - PC
#79: ICO - PS2
#80: Call of Duty - PC
#81: Tales of Symphonia - GC
#82: Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island - SNES
#83: Tekken 3 - PS
#84: Tecmo Super Bowl - NES
#85: Halo 2 - XBOX
#86: Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time - PS2
#87: Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Chaos Theory - XBOX
#88: Gunstar Heroes - GEN
#89: Final Fantasy Tactics Advance - GBA
#90: Unreal Tournament 2004 - PC
#91: Madden NFL 2004 - PS2
#92: Gran Turismo - PS
#93: Phantasy Star IV - GEN
#94: Shining Force II - GEN
#95: Vagrant Story - PS
#96: Grim Fandango - PC
#97: NiGHTS Into Dreams... - SAT
#98: Shining Force - GEN
#99: F-Zero - SNES
#100: X-COM: UFO Defense - PC


Now, do you see something missing?  Other than of course only one CV game on that list?











You see nothing? Look again...




















Where the fuck is Mega Man?

[ilpalazzo]

Stupid bastards couldn't create a "best games list" if their lives depended on it. Mega Man 2 should have made it on. the best in the series.  You agree don't you desty.

[Darkmoon]

There's a gaping hole there not having LttP on there. That have Wind Waker and Majora's Mask, but no LttP? The fuck?

[ilpalazzo]

Link to the past was the best of the series.
No super scope games. thE FUCK.

[Xuzaf D]

There's a gaping hole there not having LttP on there. That have Wind Waker and Majora's Mask, but no LttP? The fuck?

Actually, it's number 4.

[Darkmoon]

Now I feel like I tard. I didn't see it, just the N64 ones.

[Bloodreign]

Final Fantasy VII as #1 eh..... only at GameFAQ's. 

[Helena]

Well since the movie is out in japan and available on limewire, kazaa, etc. people are getting into the game again that's prolly why it's number one right now.

[Destina Faroda]

As much as I think Final Fantasy VII is overrated, I can understand users placing it at #1.  On the other hand, I still cannot fathom how one of the most popular, recognizable, and long running series that has spawned both sequels and subseries is completely ignored.

Between this and the summer contest semi-finals (I still don't see how so many people picked Crono), I'm beginning to think there's a bias against Mega Man among GameFAQs users.  Maybe I'm reading too far into it, but it worries me.  Life without the robot in blue?  What am I to do?

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

The biggest problem is that GameFAQs is the biggest CHEATING site for people.  You go to GameFAQs to look for a FAQ... a way to read 'how to' do something in a game.

It's a Fact that the bigger the game, and the more complex a game is, the more questions in brings up, ergo bigger FAQs.

It's also a Fact that RPGs are bigger games than action platformers.  As such, GameFAQs visitors are often people stuck in an RPG.  Statistically, people get stuck at an RPG moreso than any other Genre.  Mega Man is an Action-Platform genre, unless you're talking Adventure, such as the Zero series, or Battle Network (notice that the MMBN FAQs are generally a lot larger than, say, Mega Man III FAQs).

As such, it can be deduced that the people voting those contest are more familiar or know a lot more about RPGs than other Genres... and quite possibly play ONLY RPGs (or play those the most).  Because of this, any RPG is automatically more 'popular' at that website than an Action-Platform.

That's why Mega Man is an absentee from that list.  It's also why the quickest series genre (Shoot 'em Ups, such as Gradius and R-Type) will ALWAYS be absent from that list, even if the games are great.  People who need help with a Shooter will probably not go to GameFAQs nearly as much as people who need help with an RPG.

It's a Biased report.

[Xuzaf D]

Thanks. I was sick of being the one who said that.

[Darkmoon]

It was a well rasoned post. I tend to agree with that statement.